Today’s UK Twitter Trends (Apr. 29): Kiss Me, Kate

“Never, in the history of Britain, have so many waited for a kiss between so few,” tweeted mikeysnewquest‎.

It turned out to be two kisses, but Mikey’s reworking of Winston Churchill got the sense of anticipation just right.

So here, through tweets from the UK, is an anatomy of a kiss.

The anticipation for a wedding kiss started way before Will and Kate made it to the balcony at Buckingham Palace. Many people on Twitter, even many Britons, wondered why there was no kiss during the wedding ceremony itself.

isobelkho‎: WHAT, what happened to ‘you may kiss the bride’ and all that? They’re not too posh for a little kiss surely?